Back fromTalamanka

Were back! Our journey began last Saturday at 2am, but it actually started back in June. Endless days of counting medications, labeling,separating,and many,many phone calls led to a successful medical clinic. We left Jardin Sagrado at 2am to arrive in Talamanka around 6am, little did we know that we would actually get there two hours early. Everything looks different at night especially when your driving through the rain forest in pitch black. Luckily, Katherine remembered her way to the village....but we had to get out of the bus because on two occasions the bus got stuck!
We finally arrived to our destination, well at least where we had to park the bus. ...So far so good, but a bottle of cooking oil exploded during transit and spilled all over our equipment! As always having a good team during hard times helps, everyone had a great attitude looking for ways to clean off the equipment, worrying more about the Indians than there own comforts. It begins, a 45 minute hike up and down muddy, rocky, and dangerous, but beautiful scenery on our way to the village. We finally arrive to begin the real work, Dave Manore and his construction team began putting up black garbage bags as walls around a wooden frame to serve as doctors offices for the clinic. Katherine began to put together the Pharmacy with the help of Amy,Lynea and Linda, together they filled a total of 755 prescriptions, they did a great job keeping up with the doctors getting everyone there medications on time. Erin and John Delmont put together on of the best programs for children's ministry I've seen to date at a clinic. They had arts & crafts, face painting, sports, coloring, and bible stories for the children to enjoy. Dave Manore along with his team of handy men,did an amazing job escorting patients to different stations, keeping the doctor's offices covered, and evangelizing regardless of the language barrier. We were blessed to have Isa and Coqui with us,they are such a great couple, helping to feed everyone at the clinic, patients, staff, volunteers, and a couple of stray dogs here and there. We were so blessed to have Don Guillermo, his daughter Julie and his 4x4, man was that a blessing, imagine carrying all that gear for 45 minutes up a muddy mountain! We attended a total of 151 patients of all ages, we were blessed once again to have Dr.Randy,Dr.Emanuele,Dr.Alejandra,and David to help attend everyone. The only bad part, of this entire trip was cleaning up and saying goodbye, we wished we could of stayed longer but there is always a next time.
I must apologize that we don't have pictures to put up, our camera finally decided to retire, as soon as we get pictures from the team will will put them up.

Blessings

David,Katherine and Alianna